Leptobasis lucifer
{{Short description|Species of damselfly}}
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| image = Male Leptobasis lucifer.jpg
| image_caption = A male L. lucifer in Loxahatchee NWR, Palm Beach County, FL.
| genus = Leptobasis
| species = lucifer
| authority = (Donnelly, 1967)
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Leptobasis lucifer, commonly referred to as lucifer swampdamsel, is a relatively long and slender species of narrow-winged damselfly in the genus Leptobasis found in Central America, southern parts of Mexico, as well as locally in Southern Florida.{{Cite book|last=Paulson, Dennis, 1937-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758374336|title=Dragonflies and damselflies of the East|date=2011|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-3966-7|location=Princeton|oclc=758374336}} L. lucifer prefers swampy woodland habitats, such as cypress swamps and tend to hunt near trees, scanning and hovering around leaves in search for prey. Males have black striping on a green thorax with a bright red patch near the end of the abdomen, whereas females are more variable: ranging from dull greenish brown, to blue and reddish orange, to even green with a blue ring around the abdomen. Adult females of this species have a large ovipositor and immatures of both sexes have pale blueish in replacement for any green or greenish patches that would be visible in the adult stage.
